African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies
By: edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando and Bolaji Bateye
Contributors: Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
Series: Vitality of indigenous religions; Vitality of indigenous religions
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781409446149; 9781409446156
Subjects: Religion; Religious aspects; Women and religion; African diaspora
Other titles: African traditions in the study of religion in Africa.
Notes: "Book two."

"Essays in honour of Prof. Jacob Kehinde Olupona."

Companion volume to: African traditions in the study of religion in Africa / edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : African traditions in the study of religion in Africa : contending with gender, the vitality of indigenous religions and diaspora / Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame, Bolaji Bateye; title: ch. 1. Approaches to peacemaking in Africa : obuntu perspectives from Western Kenya / Lucas Nandih Shamala; title: ch. 2. Religious pluralism and secularization in the Nigerian religious sphere / Danoye Oguntola Laguda; title: ch. 3. Faith, spiritualism and materialism : understanding the interfaces of religion and economy in Nigeria / Olutayo Adesina; title: ch. 4. Towards a civil religion in Nigeria / Musa Gaiya; title: ch. 5. The tradition of ancestral veneration manifesting in national symbols : a study of its implication for national integration and moral transformation in Nigeria / Kehinde Jacob Ayantayo; title: ch. 6. The concept of expiatory sacrifice in the early Church and in African indigenous religious traditions / Samson A. Fatokun; title: ch. 7. Researching African immigrant religions : boundaries, belonging and access / Abel Ugba; title: ch. 8. Áìní obìnrin kò seé dáké lásán, bí a dáké lásán, enu níí yo ni : women's leadership roles in Aládurà churches in Nigeria and the USA / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Elisha Renne; title: ch. 9. The place of second-generation youth in West Indian pentecostalism in the diaspora; title: New York and London / Janice McLean; title: ch. 10. Religion and masculinities in Africa : an opportunity for Africanization / Ezra Chitando; title: ch. 11. Rethinking women, nature and ritual purity in Yoruba religious traditions / Bolaji Bateye; title: ch. 12. Partnership and the exercise of power in Nigerian churches / Dorcas Akintunde; title: ch. 13. The Northern Nigerian Muslim woman : between economic crisis and religious puritanism / Oluwakemi Adesina.